The Cognate Boost: A Study of Picture Naming across Proficiency Levels with L2 Learners of Russian.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the "cognate boost" in Russian. Based on the Revised Hierarchical Model of bilingual memory and the theory of nonselective language storage in bilinguals, it was assumed that cognates would facilitate the performance of L1 English learners of L2 Russian i...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Slavic Linguistics Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 285 - 312 |
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Indiana University, Slavic Department
Summer/Fall2015
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